2021-10-18 Redistricting Commission Public Hearing minutes (District 3)

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2021 HAWAII COUNTY REDISTRICTING COMMISSION COUNCIL DISTRICT 3 PUBLIC HEARING Portion of South Hilo and Portion of Kea`au Monday, October 18, 2021, 6:00 p.m. Hilo Municipal Golf Course Multi-Purpose Room 340 Haihai Street Hilo, Hawaii 96720 CALL TO ORDER: HUSTACE: Aloha, everyone! Welcome to the third public hearing for the Hawaii County Redistricting Commission. Today is Monday, October 18th. My name is James Hustace and I am the Vice-Chair of the Redistricting Commission. I will just read a brief announcement here. Because of the Coronavirus Emergency and State and Federal guidance on large meetings or gatherings, and pursuant to the Mayor's Proclamations regarding COVID-19, the Redistricting Commission meetings are currently not open to the public to the extent that we wish. Until further notice, members of the public may view or provide oral testimony via the Zoom platform by requesting this information as noted in our agendas or reaching out to the Commission via email. So, thank you for understanding. I will call this public hearing meeting to order. It is 6:03 in the evening. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC HUSTACE: This evening, as I mentioned, is our third public hearing. Our satellite this evening is set up in Council District 3 at the Hilo Municipal Golf Course. We will wait this evening online till about 6:30 to see if attendees from the public will join us either online or at the Hilo Muni Golf Course. So I appreciate the patience of the Commissioners joining us this evening. We do have a couple of the Commissioners on the call and some at the site as well. And we look forward to the input from the community. So thank you for joining us, Commissioners, and we will wait patiently to see if we have guests joining us. So, mahalo. Please note that during this time, Commissioners and support staff were on stand-by. BATH: Hello?